# bucket list

Pronunciation: say "BUK-it list" US /ˈbʌkət ˌlɪst/, UK /ˈbʌkɪt ˌlɪst/

## Idiom

1. A list of things a person hopes to accomplish before they die.
   - Simple: A list of things you want to do before you die.
   - _Seeing the northern lights has been on her bucket list for years._
   - _Skydiving was the last item left on my grandfather's bucket list._
2. A list of things to get done before a particular deadline or within a particular period of time.
   - Simple: A list of things you want to do by a certain date or during a certain time.
   - _Ice skating on the lake is at the top of our winter bucket list._
   - _Before graduation, she wrote a senior-year bucket list and checked off every item by June._
3. A list of tasks that come up during a meeting and are set aside to be dealt with later.
   - Simple: A list of jobs that come up in a meeting and are saved for later.
   - _Let's put the budget question on the bucket list and get back to the schedule._
   - _At the end of the session, the facilitator went through the bucket list and gave each item an owner._
4. A data structure made up of buckets, used in a hashing algorithm.
   - Simple: In computing, a way of storing data in groups called buckets, used in a method called hashing.
   - _The compiler stores its symbol table as a bucket list, with each bucket holding names that hash to the same value._
   - _Each insertion appends the new record to the matching bucket list._

## Origin

From bucket + list. The meeting sense may allude to a notional bucket where tasks are put to be dealt with later, while the "before one's death" sense refers to kick the bucket, "to die". That sense was coined in 1999 by the screenwriter Justin Zackham, who shortened his "List of Things to Do before I Kick the Bucket" to "Justin's Bucket List", and it was popularized by his film The Bucket List (2007).

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